What is an atmospheric group/community?

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I think there is a real distinction to be made here that points to 2 very different considerations/use cases for the infrastructure. This is the typology I’ve settled on:

• A group is a set of people that willingly convene, for any reason. Online, these are Discord servers, subreddits, Facebook groups, etc.
• A community is a looser, emergent social construct, where individuals are united by a shared identity built from common values, experiences, and/or affinities. The identity itself acts as a social signal others evaluate. Think fandoms, the Black community, the scientific community, etc.

Second this distinction, and I think this working group would be most accurately named the “Group Spaces WG”.

Every community is made up of one or more groups of people. However not every group is a community. As such, the protocol primitive we’re defining here is first and foremost group spaces.